The students of the Renaissance Youth Opera Theatre perform
Gilbert and Sullivan's operatic extraveganza, the piece that gave the legen
dary duo their start! The Gods on Mount Olympus are old and tired, so decid
e to leave Mount Olympus and take a holiday. Meanwhile a troupe of travelli
ng actors take their place.

“Thespis” follows an acting troupe and the gods on Mount Olympus. The g
ods need a vacation, so decide to leave Mount Olympus and take a holiday. A
s luck would have it, the acting troupe, headed by Thespis, the legendary G
reek father of drama, arrives and they agree to temporarily take the place
of the gods. The actors turn out to be comically inept rulers. Having seen
the ensuing mayhem down below, the angry gods return, sending the actors ba
ck to Earth as "eminent tragedians, whom no one ever goes to see.”

Yo
unger performers will perform a “curtain-raiser” of “Hercules,” another ori
ginal work by Michael Thomas. “Hercules” follows the Greek Hero through his
seven labors in a zany spoof on the original myth.

“Thespis” follows an acting troupe and the gods on Mount Olympus. The g
ods need a vacation, so decide to leave Mount Olympus and take a holiday. A
s luck would have it, the acting troupe, headed by Thespis, the legendary G
reek father of drama, arrives and they agree to temporarily take the place
of the gods. The actors turn out to be comically inept rulers. Having seen
the ensuing mayhem down below, the angry gods return, sending the actors ba
ck to Earth as "eminent tragedians, whom no one ever goes to see.”

Yo
unger performers will perform a “curtain-raiser” of “Hercules,” another ori
ginal work by Michael Thomas. “Hercules” follows the Greek Hero through his
seven labors in a zany spoof on the original myth.